[Distutils] Uninstalling

Sean Reifschneider jafo@tummy.com
Mon Mar 12 20:14:01 2001


On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:28:56PM -0800, Paul Prescod wrote:
>from a source distribution you would probably uninstall from the
>setup.py. If you installed from a GUI you would probably uninstall from
>an equal and opposite GUI. :)

Based on our discussions at Python 9, I think the direction we're going
to take is that there will be some stand-alone program that will allow a
user to query what packages are installed, and remove them.  Keeping the
setup.py around is non-optimal.

Sean
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